The current group of research projects being carried out at the Laboratories are mutually supportive of one another and combine to form a comprehensive research program with a single unifying focus: human communication by speech and reading. Additional information for each of these projects can be obtained by clicking on the project's title. Information is also available on some of the unique tools used in our research.

Selected publications by Haskins staff members are also available on our site.

From Endangered Language Documentation to Phonetic Documentation provids initial phonetic documentation of three endangered languages while further establishing how much material is needed for documentation to be considered representative. A reconsideration of how to define categories in terms of distributions of realizations rather than their means will also be a result.

An Ultrasound Investigation of Consonant Harmony in Tahltan (tht) provides ultrasound evidence of tongue grooving in Tahltan consonant harmony to test Gafos's (1996) prediction that such grooves associated with fricatives can explain the harmony as a local process despite its seemingly long-distance nature.

Neurobiological Foundations of Reading (Dis)ability. The principal goal of this project is to gain a deeper understanding of the etiology of reading disability by following reading development over the course of two years in seven-year-old children of varying reading levels.

CSDE Reading First. Haskins Literacy Specialists and members of the Reading First Management Team are writing an on-line module for the State Department of Education.

Variability and error in speech production.
Addresses the relationship between 'normal' token-to-token variability in the production of phonetic units and tokens that can be characterized as containing 'errors.'